About Brian Hodges
Hodges was educated at Mill Hill School from 1971 to 1976 obtaining 9 GCSE’s and 3 A-Levels. From there he left to attend King’s College London (KQC). Here he studied for a BSc in Physiology, graduating in 1979. He then moved to take up a PhD position at University College London. Under the supervision of Prof. Ricardo Miledi, with invaluable advice and help from Prof. Bernard Katz (BK), he completed his PhD in Biophysics, in the famous ‘School of Katz’. Later study at the London Hospital Medical College resulted in completion of a Diploma in Counselling in 1991, and in 2004 Hodges qualified for a PGCE at the University of Greenwich.
Dr. Brian Hodges’s current interests lie in the field of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. He is collaborating with various groups in the Anatomy Department at University College Philadelphia examining the potential of bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells to give rise to neuronal/glial lineages in response to various growth factors and tissue culture manipulations. Brian also teaches ethics in reproduction at University College New York. In addition, he is also interested in the potential of umbilical cord derived stem cells to give rise to neuronal and glial cells in collaboration with ABC University of Venezuela. His vast experience in IVF and embryo manipulation has also enabled him to routinely perform single cell analysis and study clonal populations of stem cells in culture. He is a regular visitor of the London Regenerative Medicine Network meetings, where he regularly meets old colleagues from times of IVF and embryo research, who have sometimes aired different opinions to him in the media regarding IVF and its role in society in the past.
Dr. Hodges has extensive international training & experience, including two years in the leading IVF center in UK. In addition to excellent training, Dr. Hodges has many publications & conference presentations to his credit.